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forestfly

forestfly is the alternative form of forest fly.

Meaning of forest fly

Noun

forest fly (plural forest flies)

  1. A horsefly, any of numerous species of blood-sucking flies of the family Tabanidae.
  2. A fly of the genus Hippobosca, especially Hippobosca equina; a horse tick.
    Synonyms:
    horse tick, horsefly, horse louse

Forms of forestfly

pluralforestflies

Words formed from forestfly

Questions about forestfly

What is forestfly the alternative form of?
Forestfly is the alternative form of forest fly.

Words near forestfly in the dictionary

  1. foresters
  2. forestership
  3. foresterships
  4. forestes
  5. forestflies
  6. forestfly
  7. forestful
  8. forestfuls
  9. Foresthill
  10. forestial
  11. Forestian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forestfly (page history and authors); forest fly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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